"Olympic Defeat for (Elitist) Obama, Too Busy with Washington Politics to Go the Last Mile for his own Home Town"
G
· 2 months ago
Exactly!
PresPlatitudes
· 2 months ago
LOL! how about if he spent a FRACTION of the effort on something like fighting for the public option? a fraction?
PresPlatitudes
· 2 months ago
how about he get off his by-stander ass and fight for the public option?
for sure he has plenty to be ashamed about--the media just refuses to look in the right places.
Oldnovice
· 2 months ago
South America has NEVER held the Olympics, while the US has held the games how many times?
I think they made the correct decision. Give Rio a chance.
DickJones
· 2 months ago
This was never about the President. This was supposed to be Michelle Obama's victory. She's going on a year now with 20 assistants and nothing to show for it except the veggie garden and a lot of cheap talk about "the children". She went over early to politic and warm up the crowd and when successful, she was to get the credit.
But as has been the pattern, Team Obama failed. The president should never have injected himself into this, even when summoned to go by one of his handlers, Mayor Daily. But Obama did go and he owns the embarrassment.
Team Obama + Oprah had their asses handed to them and the shame is all theirs.
ArizonaWill
· 2 months ago
THey had their asses handed to them?
I just don't understand. Is this really a "do or die" situation? Are we so competitively obsessed that not being picked is a situation of great shame? I think it is about time a South American country hosts the Olympics. They made a good decision. Was Obama supposed to attack and subdue the IOC? Was this yet another undeclared war? Why is everything so personal? If my grandson loses a soccer game, he doesn't feel that the other team "handed him his ass" - he just shrugs, goes for pizza with the team, and they work harder on their skills. Since when has losing something been equivalent to having no sense of self left?
DickJones
· 2 months ago
So you're saying that IF Chicago had been picked for the Olympics the press would not have gone crazy praising Obama? Oh Please! The mainstream media is in the tank for Obama and they need him to have a win quickly to keep from looking so foolish for having supported him so blindly.
Frankly, I don't care where the Olympics are held. I don't watch them and I don't live in Chicago. But when a president invests political capital and personal credibility in an effort, any effort, it had better come out well or it will hurt him. I did not make those rules but that is the way it is.
And I hope your grandson works hard and plays hard and avoids soccer injuries. It's a rough game. My sons have knee problems from years of soccer.
nicho
· 2 months ago
Why do you want the president to be a failure. You sound so happy about it. Shouldn't you be over posting with the other snotballs and traitors on Free Republic?
DickJones
· 2 months ago
I feel the same way about President Obama as the left felt about President Bush. And yes I am happy when Obama's lack of substance, ability and his overall incompetence is highlighted for the country and world to see.
Being the President is not about reading a Teleprompter well. It's about sound judgement and leadership and the ability to put the country ahead of ones own political ambition and this President has failed miserably so far.
Obama is failing fast and based on his ever falling poll numbers, the country is waking up to that fact.
Oh and I will post here until until they kick me off, which should be soon.
Butch1
· 2 months ago
Most republicans seem fixated on Obama using a teleprompter. Since they've been in existence, all presidents have used them yet, you take exception that Obama uses one. Obama has done enough ( or perhaps, that should be nothing ) during his tenure to be able to pick a topic and rally against him, but the tired, old, teleprompter rant just shows you know how to regurgitate back the republicans "talking points."
ArizonaWill
· 2 months ago
Are you inferring that George W. Bush didn't use a teleprompter? That is so silly. Even in highschool when I took a Public Speaking class, I worked hard on my thoughts, put them on paper, transferred that to 3 by 5 cards that I took with me to the podium. The teacher never demanded that we memorize each speech. Yet you think the President should? Would it be OK if he stopped using high technology and went back to 3 by 5 cards at a podium?
Weezer9
· 2 months ago
Way to go Dick. Looney lefties think academic ability trumps everything but are many other skill sets necessary to do the job. This guy never ran anything substantial in his life. He might have made a good legislator if he stayed in the Senate be he is not a decision maker and it shows.
athensboy
· 2 months ago
Oh right, Sarah Palin would have been a much better choice
Weezer9
· 2 months ago
Palin was not running for President. Anyone can be Vice President, it's barely a real job. Palin still has slightly more executive experience than Mr. Acorn and I still would not nominate her for president. Difference is , I will admit that. >>It's a dangerous world out there and that office is no place for a novice.
athensboy
· 2 months ago
go worship Limbaugh
naschkatzehussein
· 2 months ago
I read Michelle's speech and it was a flop. It was all about her growing up in Chicago and half of it was about her dad. She said she used to sit in her dad's lap to watch the Olympics and was inspired by Nadia Commenic, Carl Lewis and others. The only problem is her speech writers didn't do a fact check, and someone has pointed out that she was 20 when Carl Lewis was in the Olympics. She was sitting in her daddy's lap?
DickJones
· 2 months ago
They were a very close family... And the Obama's always/only talk about themselves.
gloughlin42
· 2 months ago
That sounds about right to me.....
vkobaya
· 2 months ago
You failed to use a few of your favorite words, like "Negro", uppity, boy, Nazi, etc. Don't think we know what you are about.
Reality is that if the Olympics had come to Chicago, the right would then have criticized that and blamed Obama for all the fake, phony reasons Chicago was wrong, among other things that it was socialism and, since the nitwits don't have any idea of the meaning of the words, claim it prove Obama was a Nazi. <g> Ah ... yes, they would claim it was uppity Nazi, proving Obama was a socialist. <g> My guess is that due to the alliteration, the dimwits probably think Nazi is another racist slur like "Negro" which is why they like the Nazi charge so much.
Ojaz
· 2 months ago
..."You failed to use a few of your favorite words, like "Negro", uppity, boy, Nazi, etc. Don't think we know what you are about"...
Nice try dummy, except they happen to be your racial slurs, racist.
vkobaya
· 2 months ago
Yes, I admit I suffer from some disgraceful racism. Difference is, I am disgusted by my own inborn racism and disgusted when others don't even try to fight their inborn reptilian brain but rather give it free reign. We all are inborn bigots of one type or another, but we have to try to deny that ugly part of ourselves and rationalize that in truth we are all equal and all deserve the same freedom and opportunities for happiness. Getting to the point where I despise Obama for a sellout, but when the racists attack him, I still have to defend him against racist attacks just because it is the right thing to do. The Republicans are fools. They could very well mount very legitimate attacks which would be hard to refute, but instead, lead with their lower nature and reveal themselves for very base, vile, hateful creatures. Then again, they stumble over the legitimate criticisms, like Obama is pro-corporations, an enemy of the poor and the people, a promise breaker and homophobic because all of those are things that are too Republican and things they admire.
Former Massachusetts governor and head of the 2002 Olympic Organizing Committee Mitt Romney says President Obama is doing exactly what needs to be done by flying to Denmark to lobby for the Olympics to come to Chicago in 2016.
Romney tells ABC News that having a sitting president make a personal pitch can make an enormous difference to the 106 members of the International Olympic Committee.
DickJones
· 2 months ago
Having a sitting president make a personal pitch can make an enormous difference and help bring the olympics to a particular city. The president could have made a difference and he didn't, that's the problem. Obama is weak, ineffective and has NO accomplishments except passing a huge spending bill that has done more damage than good in reviving the economy.
Obama believes his own press and his ego is out of control. He was sent on an errand by Mayor Daily and he failed. What the hell was Michelle doing over there in the first place? She has fewer accomplishments than the president. They can pretend that Michelle is Jackie O all they like, but it's just not true. Maybe they should have sent Mitt Romney, a man with many accomplishments under his belt.
athensboy
· 2 months ago
dick, your the reason the gop is out of power.
redbike1
· 2 months ago
Maybe Sarah Palin should have gone. You betcha. A little wink from her and it would have been all over. She's got such international credibility you know. And with a best selling book too. Also . .
DickJones
· 2 months ago
Well Sarah Palin could not have done any worse than Obama and crew... Maybe if Palin had gone, Chicago might have made it to the second round? Redbike1 is clearly a big thinker...
athensboy
· 2 months ago
thank you mr troll, go back to redstate now
AdrianBrowne
· 2 months ago
It shows that Obama was willing to go to bat so publicly for something that wasn't in the bag -- it wasn't about the Public Relations. Kind of refreshing.
G
· 2 months ago
Hey, the USOC picked Chicago in April 2007 when Dubya was President.
So let's "blame" Obama for something he had nothing to do with but was trying to make work.
PresPlatitudes
· 2 months ago
gosh, he managed not to equivocate in his support of chicago's bid. so we know it's possible: why doesn't he step up and fight for the public option, instead of merely indicating that it's his preference? what does it mean that his clearest declaration in the last several months isn't about torture prosecutions, or removing DADT, or supporting the public option, but instead a fly-by declaration of support for an olympic bid.
this is a "teachable moment" about his priorities.
obama apologists, let me guess: this is the job he begged us to let him do, and now we're supposed to make him do it? oh, and i thought his reasoning against torture prosecution was that it would be a POLITICAL DISTRACTION from important issues like health care reform. SO it turns out obama sits on his ass while the right wing stirs up all manner of ludicrousness, hemming and hawing, refusing the fight for the public option. absolutely shameful, and you're kidding yourselves if you think we don't see right through you.
RichardS
· 2 months ago
Republicans are so hateful and racist that they cheer. Thousands of people are out of jobs that would be available had Chicago won the Olympics, but republicans are more gleeful to see Obama "lose" than to see America win.
hrh
· 2 months ago
Exactly.
lilliannerose
· 2 months ago
Who really thought that the US would host another Olympics so soon after the Atlanta games?
xxxevilgrinxxx
· 2 months ago
just another reason that AP belongs on the shit heap with Faux News
hawk
· 2 months ago
And the Right-wingers cheered.
These UN-AMERICAN tradiors should be ship to gitmo.
What has the Republican Party become???
hawk
· 2 months ago
Not my fault the post was posted twice---HAWK
larryv
· 2 months ago
Chicago did not have a chance. Between the Salt Lake City scandal(you know Romneys claim to fame) from vote buying from IOC members, the Atlanta embarrassment, the long standing resentment of the IOC of the USOC decades of arrogance, just getting into the US via our new and welcoming customs/immigration(even as an American it pisses me off) and of course the Bush years I would dare say it will be another twenty years before the US has a shot....couple our own baggage South America never having hosted an Olympiad and Brasils entry as a world power on the international stage...a terrific presentation(Chicagos was flat) Rio won. If the right wants to celebrate then they have joined those around the world that are anti American.
Montiel
· 2 months ago
"whipping" - clever.
I am constantly overwhelmed by the level of ignorance and bigotry that seems to be thriving in the US.
BigGuy
· 2 months ago
We may be assuming that both the writer and the editor at AP knew that whipping was the way slaves -- and free Blacks -- were punished in America and Whites then (and in some places) now viewed that whipping as a good thing. Unfortunately, there's a good possibility that they did not even realize their headline connoted racism of the past -- and present. Obama has a thick skin against this type of stuff (more like steel than skin) and apparently some of the folks at the AP are very thick-headed.
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"Olympic Defeat for (Elitist) Obama, Too Busy with Washington Politics to Go the Last Mile for his own Home Town"
for sure he has plenty to be ashamed about--the media just refuses to look in the right places.
I think they made the correct decision. Give Rio a chance.
But as has been the pattern, Team Obama failed. The president should never have injected himself into this, even when summoned to go by one of his handlers, Mayor Daily. But Obama did go and he owns the embarrassment.
Team Obama + Oprah had their asses handed to them and the shame is all theirs.
I just don't understand. Is this really a "do or die" situation? Are we so competitively obsessed that not being picked is a situation of great shame? I think it is about time a South American country hosts the Olympics. They made a good decision. Was Obama supposed to attack and subdue the IOC? Was this yet another undeclared war? Why is everything so personal? If my grandson loses a soccer game, he doesn't feel that the other team "handed him his ass" - he just shrugs, goes for pizza with the team, and they work harder on their skills. Since when has losing something been equivalent to having no sense of self left?
Frankly, I don't care where the Olympics are held. I don't watch them and I don't live in Chicago. But when a president invests political capital and personal credibility in an effort, any effort, it had better come out well or it will hurt him. I did not make those rules but that is the way it is.
And I hope your grandson works hard and plays hard and avoids soccer injuries. It's a rough game. My sons have knee problems from years of soccer.
Being the President is not about reading a Teleprompter well. It's about sound judgement and leadership and the ability to put the country ahead of ones own political ambition and this President has failed miserably so far.
Obama is failing fast and based on his ever falling poll numbers, the country is waking up to that fact.
Oh and I will post here until until they kick me off, which should be soon.
Looney lefties think academic ability trumps everything but are many other skill sets necessary to do the job. This guy never ran anything substantial in his life. He might have made a good legislator if he stayed in the Senate be he is not a decision maker and it shows.
>>It's a dangerous world out there and that office is no place for a novice.
Reality is that if the Olympics had come to Chicago, the right would then have criticized that and blamed Obama for all the fake, phony reasons Chicago was wrong, among other things that it was socialism and, since the nitwits don't have any idea of the meaning of the words, claim it prove Obama was a Nazi. <g> Ah ... yes, they would claim it was uppity Nazi, proving Obama was a socialist. <g> My guess is that due to the alliteration, the dimwits probably think Nazi is another racist slur like "Negro" which is why they like the Nazi charge so much.
Nice try dummy, except they happen to be your racial slurs, racist.
Former Massachusetts governor and head of the 2002 Olympic Organizing Committee Mitt Romney says President Obama is doing exactly what needs to be done by flying to Denmark to lobby for the Olympics to come to Chicago in 2016.
Romney tells ABC News that having a sitting president make a personal pitch can make an enormous difference to the 106 members of the International Olympic Committee.
Obama believes his own press and his ego is out of control. He was sent on an errand by Mayor Daily and he failed. What the hell was Michelle doing over there in the first place? She has fewer accomplishments than the president. They can pretend that Michelle is Jackie O all they like, but it's just not true. Maybe they should have sent Mitt Romney, a man with many accomplishments under his belt.
So let's "blame" Obama for something he had nothing to do with but was trying to make work.
this is a "teachable moment" about his priorities.
obama apologists, let me guess: this is the job he begged us to let him do, and now we're supposed to make him do it? oh, and i thought his reasoning against torture prosecution was that it would be a POLITICAL DISTRACTION from important issues like health care reform. SO it turns out obama sits on his ass while the right wing stirs up all manner of ludicrousness, hemming and hawing, refusing the fight for the public option. absolutely shameful, and you're kidding yourselves if you think we don't see right through you.
These UN-AMERICAN tradiors should be ship to gitmo.
What has the Republican Party become???
I am constantly overwhelmed by the level of ignorance and bigotry that seems to be thriving in the US.